Purbeckopus | |
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Trace fossil classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Pterosauria |
Suborder: | † Pterodactyloidea |
Ichnofamily: | † Pteraichnidae |
Ichnogenus: | †
Purbeckopus Delair, 1963 |
Type ichnospecies | |
†Purbeckopus pentadactylus
Delair, 1963
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Purbeckopus is an ichnotaxon of pterosaur of the family Pteraichnidae. Considered as a nomen dubium, it lived in southern England during the Berriasian, in the Early Cretaceous. According to the fossil remains found, it is expected that it was a large pterosaur, with 6 m (19.7 ft) in wingspan. [1]
Purbeckopus | |
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Trace fossil classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | † Pterosauria |
Suborder: | † Pterodactyloidea |
Ichnofamily: | † Pteraichnidae |
Ichnogenus: | †
Purbeckopus Delair, 1963 |
Type ichnospecies | |
†Purbeckopus pentadactylus
Delair, 1963
|
Purbeckopus is an ichnotaxon of pterosaur of the family Pteraichnidae. Considered as a nomen dubium, it lived in southern England during the Berriasian, in the Early Cretaceous. According to the fossil remains found, it is expected that it was a large pterosaur, with 6 m (19.7 ft) in wingspan. [1]